Name: BarryNet Message Board Date/Time: 2/23/2023 2:52 AM Subject: You Came A Long Way From St. Louis Song for the Day - February 23, 2023: "YOU CAME A LONG WAY FROM ST. LOUIS" performed by Barry Manilow during his Clicker Tour at the Riverport Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri on August 18, 1997!               "You Came A Long Way From St. Louis" was written by Bob Russell and John Benson Brooks in 1948. John Benson Brooks (1917 - 1999) was born on February 23rd.